Join the Vassar Club of New York at 7:00 p.m. ET for an exclusive screening of Plainclothes followed by a talkback with the film's director Carmen Emmi and intimacy coordinator Joey Massa, moderated by Ash Cook [Hoyle] ’18 and hosted by Hallie Ayres ’18.

The film will run for an hour and 35 minutes, followed by a 25-minutes talkback.

Tickets are $18.61. Please RSVP by September 14.

About Plainclothes:
A promising undercover agent assigned to lure and arrest gay men defies professional orders when he falls in love with a target. Winner of the US Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast at the Sundance Film Festival.

Joey Baseil Massa is a filmmaker and intimacy coordinator with experience in theatre, film and television. They trained with Theatrical Intimacy Education and are a Guiding Faculty member with the organization. Recent TV credits include: Law & Order: SVU (NBC), American Sports Story (FX), and A League of Their Own (Amazon Studios), and recent film credits include Plainclothes, Babes and Tendaberry. Joey’s background is in sexual violence prevention education work and work surrounding supporting survivors. They volunteer as a sexual assault and domestic violence crisis advocate in emergency rooms across NYC.

Ash Cook [Hoyle] ’18 is a features Programmer at the Sundance Film Festival where he focuses on both fiction, nonfiction, and Midnight. Ash is currently serving as the Guest Festival Director of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, the first and largest Jewish film festival in the world. He sits on the Advisory Board of the Los Angeles Festival of Movies and has also worked as the Director of Programming of Damn These Heels Film Festival, run by the Utah Film Center, as well as a Senior Programmer at Outfest Los Angeles and a Programmer at Palm Springs Shorts Fest. Ash is a 2021 Project Involve Fellow on Film Independent’s programming track and has also been involved in programming NewFest NY, Sun Valley Film Festival, Overlook Film Festival, and AFI Fest and worked in production at ABC, Mssng Peces, and The Annoyance Theater. Ash is originally from Philadelphia, PA and holds a dual degree in Film & English from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY.

Hallie Ayres ’18 is a writer, researcher, and curator living in New York. She served as co-curator of Cosmos Cinema, the 14th Shanghai Biennale (November 2023–March 2024), and is currently co-curator of Séance: Technology of the Spirit, the 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale (August–November 2025). Her writing has been published in e-flux Criticism, e-flux Journal, e-flux Education, Southwest Contemporary, NerveMeter, and Railing Codex, among other venues. She has held research fellowships at the Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research, Boston, and at the Institute of the Cosmos, where she edited Cosmic Bulletin 2021, and has delivered talks at the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague; the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum; Dia:Chelsea, New York; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; Ca’ Foscari University of Venice; Institute for Critical Inquiry, Berlin; National Center for Art Research, Tokyo; Offprint Book Fair, London; Vancouver Art Book Fair; the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock; Power Station of Art, Shanghai; and Seoul Museum of Art. She holds a graduate certificate in Land Arts of the American West from Texas Tech University. In addition, she has produced a number of experimental films and has coordinated exhibitions and projects around the globe. She works as Associate Director of e-flux, where she occasionally guest curates film screenings and is Managing Director of e-flux Index.

*Accessibility Information*

• Two flights of stairs lead up to the building’s front entrance at 172 Classon Avenue.
  
• For elevator access, please RSVP to program@e-flux.com. The building has a freight elevator nearest to 180 Classon Ave (garage door) leading into the e-flux office space. A ramp is available for steps within the space.
• e-flux has an ADA-compliant bathroom with no steps between the event space and this bathroom.